May 5, 2006, Newsletter Issue #117: Love

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In tennis scoring love means nothing, hence love-thirty is 0-30. A common (but unproven) explanation for the term "love" to signify a score of zero is that it originates from the French term "l´oeuf." Another explanation is based on the idea that to do something for love is to do something for nothing (zero).

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